On: The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

[vkou]

Then why are you letting a machine you don't understand perform side effects that you don't vet, based on it's insane interpretation of untrusted data?

[asdfasgasdgasdg → vkou]

Sorry, I just don’t think this is a tenable or realistic way to approach dependencies in this day and age. If it works for you then I’m happy for you tho.

[yjftsjthsd-h → vkou]

> Then why are you letting a machine you don't understand perform side effects that you don't vet, based on it's insane interpretation of untrusted data?

I mean, you posted this using a browser, right?

[vkou → yjftsjthsd-h]

Neither my browser nor my brain will just run whatever commands it receives over a socket as root.

[yjftsjthsd-h → vkou]

Browsers (and humans, actually) are subject to bugs that make them execute arbitrary commands from an attacker, and LLMs can be told to ignore undesired commands.

[vkou → yjftsjthsd-h]

So go tell your LLM to ignore undesired commands, and this ends up a nothingburger that nobody should be upset over.

[yjftsjthsd-h → vkou]

If you intentionally send me a virus-laden email attachment, I'm going to be justifiably unhappy even if my antivirus catches it.

[vkou → yjftsjthsd-h]

Unlike sending you an email, nobody's pushing you anything, though. You are actively pulling a program that explicitly says that you should not use it with an AI system.

It's like pulling a bunch of GPL code into your product and then complaining that it 'infected' the rest of your code. You actively chose to do that, nobody forced it upon you.